Sentences with phrase «of deadly infectious diseases»

While the biodefense enterprise is awash in cash, experts have repeatedly told the government that BARDA's $ 100 million annual budget is too tiny for its ambitious mission: developing and acquiring vaccines against a host of deadly infectious diseases.

Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide.

Cases of the deadly infectious disease went from over 250,000 during an outbreak in 1996 to just 80 confirmed cases in 2015 among countries that had not yet conducted mass immunization campaigns and among those unvaccinated, scientists at the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) Closure Conference reported.

Many existing treatments for malaria - one of the deadliest infectious diseases - target only one stage of the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite that causes the disease, and are further limited by the emergence of drug resistance in particular strains.

Not exact matches

Note to Editors: African swine fever (xASF) is a devastating infectious disease of pigs, usually deadly.

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out new statewide rules for the cooling towers that spawned the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed off on the city's portion of the «joint» regulations on the potentially infectious air conditioning units — declaring it a «huge undertaking» because no such controls ever existed before.

But when blood tests and clinical evaluation were done with the help of the regional Texas Border Infectious Disease Surveillance project, a surprising culprit was unmasked: dengue hemorrhagic fever, a deadly viral disease usually regarded as a risk only in the tDisease Surveillance project, a surprising culprit was unmasked: dengue hemorrhagic fever, a deadly viral disease usually regarded as a risk only in the tdisease usually regarded as a risk only in the tropics.

The combination of malnutrition and infectious disease is particularly deadly.

Since 1996 Tasmanian devils have lost 90 per cent of some populations to the deadly and highly infectious devil facial tumour disease, which is spread by biting.

Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, points out that the 2004 document was based on input from an international panel of 22 scientists and public - health officials, in response to the threat of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.

Vaccines have treated infectious prions in mice, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of «mad cow disease».

Her team demonstrated the potentially deadly role of an algal toxin in sea lions, shed light on marine mammal cancers and infectious diseases, and has convinced many that marine mammal health is a good indicator of the health of our oceans.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms iDisease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms idisease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

Malaria is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing as many as 1 million people per year, the majority of them children in Africa.

Some scientists do not like to use the word «prion» in connection with the amyloids associated with common neurodegenerative diseases, or to describe any of their properties as «prion - like» — because of its connotation of infectious, deadly disease.

The high mortality rate of the disease, estimated at around 60 % in the most recent outbreak, made it one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world.

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Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University)-- Systems biologist Dr. Sabeti is a physician scientist studying infectious disease evolution and the transmission of Ebola virus, Lassa fever, and other neglected, but deadly, tropical diseases.

Plasmodium falciparum is the aetiological agent of the most deadly form of malaria, an infectious tropical disease that accounts for up to one million deaths annually [1, 2].

A well - known feat of technology, the Panama Canal was also the victory of years of infectious disease research that led to an understanding that mosquitoes were the vector for deadly diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever, which had contributed to failures in earlier efforts to build the canal.

It never ceases to amaze me how government - controlled, public health «experts» talk about the danger of infectious diseases, like Ebola, and leave out the importance of digestive health, better nutrition and immune - enhancing nutritional supplements to protect the public from deadly diseases.

A profile on Feline Infectious Peritonitis and the symptoms and treatment of this deadly feline disease.

Vaccinations are extremely important in preventing certain infectious diseases, some of which can be deadly.

The answer is not to stop administering vaccinations since that would potentially allow for outbreaks of infectious diseases in cats and can be a public health concern for deadly diseases like rabies.

Fleas and ticks are a nuisance whose bites cause inflammation, pain, and sometimes skin infection directly, but they are also a vector for transmission of dangerous, even deadly infectious disease.

Pets today can live longer, healthier lives than ever before — in part because of vaccines that help protect them from deadly infectious diseases.

Puppies are most susceptible to deadly infectious diseases during the ages of 3 to 9 months, so depending on your puppy's age when you brought him home, he may have gotten his first few puppy shots already.

In a press release, the nonprofit AKC - CHF singled out Breitschwerdt's innovative, leading - edge research in infectious disease research that, «has advanced our knowledge of deadly pathogens that cross species barriers, contributing to both canine and human health.»

He also won't pick up fleas or other parasites (ticks, ear mites, worms), or become exposed to a number of contagious, deadly diseases like feline leukemia, infectious peritonitis and rabies.

On the other side of the continent, in the West African Sahel, nomadic herders are at risk of many infectious diseases including epidemic malaria and bacterial meningitis (both deadly to non-immune populations and thus the cause of catastrophic health problems that severely hamper social and economic development in the region).

Via:: ScienceDaily: New Report Details Historic Mass Extinction Of Amphibians; Humans Worsen Spread Of Deadly Emerging Infectious Disease (news website)

Over the last few years, the emergence of infectious diseases has increased and chances are high that these diseases may become more deadly in near future.

Besides different types of infectious diseases, health insurance companies provide all - inclusive coverage for other serious conditions like cancer, which is growing deadlier by the day.

And now Africa, a continent where Dr. Ronald committed many years of time and research to manage and control infectious diseases, is the epicentre of another deadly disease and Winnipeg is garnering international attention for efforts to help prevent its spread.»